On the 15th of December, Alarm Phone received a call from 15 people stranded on Lipsi, a small island between Leros and Samos.
15 people pushed back to Turkey
Tag: border crisis
Pushbacks and dehumanisation from Poland: Two reports
Are You Syrious?
Shaved head in the shape of a cross: the Hungarian authorities’ humiliation of people on the move
Below, Freedom re-publishes Are You Syrious?‘ report from Hungary: “They turned on the razor, grabbed me so I wouldn’t move and made a cross on my head.
How we got here: Brutality on the the Turkey-Greece borders
Neil Middleton looks into the broader political situations in Turkey and Greece which have fuelled horrific levels of violence and repression.
From Dover to Calais to Brussels, the border regime is in violent panic
The recent anti-migrant demonstration by the National Front and other assorted fascist backwash is among a rising tide of violence against migrants.
December 14th: Call for Solidarity from Calais
From Calais Migrant Solidarity ‘They tried to bury us.
Recent Articles
Nantes: 4,000 on the streets for Bloquons Tout
French police directed the demonstration with flash grenades and tear gas ~ from Contre Attaque ~ Saturday, 13 September, a rainy day in Nantes.
Facing down the flagshaggers
To resist normalisation, we need enduring groundwork with attacked communities—and spaces for open strategising ~ Blade Runner ~ On Saturday 13 September, between 110,000 and 150,000 turned out in response to Tommy Robinson’s call, a mobilisation framed as a defence of “free speech” but saturated with white nationalist, Islamophobic and anti-migrant rhetoric.
London arms fair disruption: A stark contrast to mass arrests for Palestine
Well-coordinated direct action catches the police off guard, showing the power of secure and strategic organising ~ Kevin Blowe ~ On 9 September, at around 7.30 in the morning, an advance bloc of about 150 protesters, their faces covered, suddenly appeared by London City Hall in east London, near to where Britain’s largest arms fair,
Anarchist prisoner released from Belarus
The regime deported 52 political prisoners in exchange for sanctions relief ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ Anarchist Nikolai (Mikola) Dziadok was among 52 political prisoners released and deported from Belarus to Lithuania on 11 September, following negotiations between dictator Alexander Lukashenko and US envoy John Colae.
